Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] TiMidity++ and FluidSynth
From: Joerg Anders (j.anders_AT_informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
Date: Mon Dec 01 2003 - 12:57:45 EET
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Mark Constable wrote:
> Is it possible that Timidity does not sound quite as clean as
> the hardware version because you have it's effects on by default ?
>
> To compare Timidity you really need to
>
> -EFreverb=0 -EFdelay=0 -EFchorus=0
>
These three options were active.
>
> Thanks to your comparison mp3s I would not bother using FluidSynth
> for anything. These and your other examples indicate this obnoxious
> attack and again, it sounds nearly a semi-tone too high.
Ok, but I regard the semi-tone as a minor problem.
>
> BTW how did you record the output from the SBlive to wav ?
>
I have Audigy2 and I simply used
acreord -f wav -t S16_LE -r 44100 -d 60 -c 2 <file>.wav
With "amixer" I set the "capture" slider to maximum and there
is still a slider "music capture". I set this slider to
maximum, too. That's all.
-- J.Anders, Chemnitz, GERMANY (ja_AT_informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
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